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Archipelago Books

My Struggle: Book Five

My Struggle: Book Five

by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

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The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself into his writing. But his efforts produce the opposite effect – he wants so much to write that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his life: his father dies, and shortly thereafter, he completes his first novel.

Additional Book Information

Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780914671398
Pages: 626
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Praise

Who’d have thought that the first monumental literary production of the 21st century ... would seem, on a line-by-line basis, so modest and so raw? The books in the My Struggle series fly high by flying low, by scanning the intricate topography of everyday life.
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

This deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times.
—Rachel Cusk, The Guardian

He's invented a new kind of narration ... The novel imagines a kind of ultimate freedom—a spiritual freedom based in radical openness. It’s expansive and impersonal, yet still human; it’s concrete, anti-ideological, and, above all, emotional. Beyond, alongside, or perhaps within the quest to know oneself, there’s a quest to know the universe.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker

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